Fire alarm activation at apartment complex with no fire found, Strongsville OH
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a fire alarm at the Towers of Falling Water apartment complex near Pearl Road in Strongsville. Multiple residents reported the alarm and some mentioned smelling smoke. Firefighters found no visible fire or confirmed smoke during inspection.
Audio|Heard on: Southwest Emergency Dispatch Center (SWEDC)
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02:22
Transcript:
00:00
Govill Engine 3, Car 4, please us find Towers of Falling Water, Building 3 near Pearl Road.
00:07
It's going to be a fire alarm, showing pole station, ground floor, B hallway alarm.
00:11
It'll be operating by ground 6.
00:17
John's L'A car for copies.
00:24
Dr. Dispatch.
00:26
Go ahead.
00:31
For copies.
00:36
Strong's old car for dispatch.
00:38
Go ahead.
00:43
R4 is in route moving to fire ground 6.
00:46
Can you please contact their maintenance or management?
00:50
Have you, love.
00:55
As long as long as 3 is in the route, going to fire ground 6.
00:58
Copy.
00:59
Car 4, engine 3, the advice, we've gotten additional calls from residents, one of them advising that her neighbors said he smelled smoke that thought it was on another floor, that caller was on the 6th floor,
01:12
we have others reporting no smoker flames.
01:18
Carport copies only one, advise they smell it, but others didn't.
01:24
Is that what she said?
01:26
Affirmative, we've got like four or five callers stating no smoke, no flames.
01:32
Carport copies, and this is on the third floor.
01:36
The alarm came in for the pole station ground floor, but that caller was on the sixth.
01:45
Carfour copies.
01:52
Strongle car four dispatch.
01:55
Go ahead.
02:00
Car 4 is on scene.
02:02
We have a 6-story, type 1.
02:05
360 complete, nothing's showing from the exterior.
02:08
We do have an audible alarm.
02:10
Car 4 will be command.
02:13
Copy.
02:14
Engine 3 is on scene.
02:16
Copy.
02:18
Command's going to go mobile.
02:19
We're going to assist Engine 3 with checking each floor.
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Location mentioned:
Pearl Rd, Strongsville, OH 44136
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